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The essential primer on the most influential American documents between 1831 and 1900

The Great American Documents series, written by the graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and illustrated by the renowned Ernie Colón, tells the history of America through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it.

The second volume begins where the first left off. Uncle Sam returns to take us through numerous major documents, ranging from the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico in 1836 to Jacob Riis's seminal exposé of slum life in New York City, How the Other Half Lives, published in 1900. Each document gets its own chapter, in which Uncle Sam explains not only its key passages but its origins, how it came to be written, and its impact. In the chapter The Compromise of 1850 we learn how westward expansion forced the federal government to confront the expansion of slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation places Abraham L

The Great American Documents Volume II

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    A Paperback / softback by Ruth Ashby, Russell Motter, Ernie Colón

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      Publisher: Hill & Wang
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/09/2019
      ISBN13: 9780374537371, 978-0374537371
      ISBN10: 0374537372

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The essential primer on the most influential American documents between 1831 and 1900

      The Great American Documents series, written by the graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and illustrated by the renowned Ernie Colón, tells the history of America through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it.

      The second volume begins where the first left off. Uncle Sam returns to take us through numerous major documents, ranging from the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico in 1836 to Jacob Riis's seminal exposé of slum life in New York City, How the Other Half Lives, published in 1900. Each document gets its own chapter, in which Uncle Sam explains not only its key passages but its origins, how it came to be written, and its impact. In the chapter The Compromise of 1850 we learn how westward expansion forced the federal government to confront the expansion of slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation places Abraham L

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